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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 30 July 2024
1. Wide of Seine River and Eiffel Tower
2. Tight of water in river
3. Tight of Olympic rings on Eiffel Tower
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 30 July 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Metin Duran, Engineering Professor, Villanova University:
“Within the last couple days, the training for the triathlon was cancelled and they’re not sure if it’s going to go on tomorrow and happen.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 30 July 2024
5. Boat on Seine
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 30 July 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Metin Duran, Engineering Professor, Villanova University:
“They just gambled, flipped the coin, hoped for a dry season, and it turned out to be the rainiest in the last 30 years. Someone should have expected this, and I’m sure that they had an idea that this was likely to happen, or 50/50, but they gambled, I think.’
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 26 July 2024
7. Various of spectators leaving opening ceremony early due to heavy rainfall
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 30 July 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Metin Duran, Engineering Professor, Villanova University:
“What we’re seeing within the last couple of decades is more frequent and more severe storm events. We used to talk about 10-year storms, 100-year storms, and within the last two decades, due to climate change, we’re seeing 10-year storms almost every year, we’re seeing 100-year storms every other year. Rain events are more frequent and more severe. So these underground tanks typically don’t have enough capacity to hold this much rain. That’s why we see more and more sewer overflows."
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Paris, France – 28 July 2024
9. Various of wastewater inside Paris sewers network
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 30 July 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Metin Duran, Engineering Professor, Villanova University:
“I think the lesson that future Olympics planners should take from Paris’ experiences: there’s no quick fix to this issue. It’s a long-term problem. You should start addressing the climate change in the first place, and perhaps airing on the side of caution to protect the athletes. Yes, it’s low risk, but it’s a risk in the end it’s going to take a long time to solve these issues all over the world. Not just Paris, but everywhere."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 26 July 2024
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11. Wide of athletes travel by boat during opening ceremony
12. US basketball player Kevin Durant waves US flag during opening ceremony
13. Team Ivory Coast wave their flag from their boat during opening ceremony
14. Team Greece’s boat travels along the Seine during opening ceremony
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 30 July 2024
15. Various of Seine
STORYLINE:
With plans for athletes to swim the Seine River through the heart of Paris, Olympic organizers essentially bet against climate change’s extreme weather. Now it’s looking like they’ll lose — by ditching the swimming portion of triathlon races.
And some scientists and engineers are saying told you so.
Heavy rains — something that’s increased with human-caused climate change, especially in Europe — running off from the urban environment have left the Seine too full of waste, including fecal matter, for athletes to compete. Unless E. coli levels fall to safe levels in coming days, a signature part of the Olympics will be washed out. So will an expensive facelift to the Parisian infrastructure that was designed to prevent the problem.
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